Bosnian ex-policeman sentenced in 92 attack that killed 50 troops

A Serbian court has sentenced a former Bosnian police officer to 12 years in prison for his role in a 1992 attack in which 50 Yugoslavian soldiers were killed. Ilija Jurisic had been charged with ordering the attack on a Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) convoy withdrawing from the Bosnian town of Tuzla at the beginning of the Bosnian war, the Balkan Transitional Justice website reported Monday. In sentencing Jurisic, presiding Judge Dragan Mirkovic said, "Despite the agreement on peaceful withdrawal of the JNA and the agreement that the column would not be attacked, the accused deliberately issued an order to attack." Some 51 officers and soldiers were killed in the attack, while at least 50 others were wounded. This was the second conviction and sentencing for Jurisic in the incident. His conviction in 2009 was overturned by an appellate court, which ordered a retrial. Jurisic was arrested in 2007 at the Belgrade airport on an international warrant issued by Serbia.